And indeed it won't. In a tribute to her idol Marilyn Monroe's iconic Playboy pics, the blonde-again star posed against a red-velvet background with bright-red lipstick and a sexy pair of pumps. "The pictorial and the concept ...came from me," Hefner said.

Still, even Hefner himself initially worried about featuring the erratic star who's been infamously plagued by legal problems and drug and alcohol struggles.

"It really came as a surprise to me," he said. "I kind of had mixed emotions about it initially ...I wasn't quite sure where she was at in her life, obviously. It depends on whether it's Tuesday or Thursday."